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<blockquote data-quote="KAstocker" data-source="post: 1766124" data-attributes="member: 40060"><p>If you're able to put them with the rest of your cows and use the same bull for them, it would help a little. Potentially managing a cow group, a separate 2-3 year old heifer group, and a replacement heifer group is a lot. Especially for a herd of less than 10, like [USER=42715]@rocfarm[/USER] currently has. I think it's a lot for a herd of less than 60. </p><p></p><p>I think economy of scale makes a big difference. Instead of growing yearling heifers, those could be replaced with more cows, giving you more calves, giving more economy of scale. Around here, the more you can do to give you bigger groups to sell, the better. You could also use high growth terminal bulls to add pounds at sale time since you don't have to keep replacements. My freight for a trailer to get to the sale is over $200. Spreading that over 10 calves vs 6 calves at sale day helps a lot. A full trailer would be better. Also, the small number of 900 lb heifers that don't breed, they won't sell worth a darn as a very small group of too heavy feeder heifers. And that's an expensive freight bill. </p><p></p><p>Good for you if you can find a way around these issues. You do seem to have nice cows, which sounds like comes from keeping replacements. I was speaking for the normal producer selling at a conventional market. </p><p></p><p>But I can't say too much about cows. I don't have cows. I just do stockers, to give me more economy of scale.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KAstocker, post: 1766124, member: 40060"] If you're able to put them with the rest of your cows and use the same bull for them, it would help a little. Potentially managing a cow group, a separate 2-3 year old heifer group, and a replacement heifer group is a lot. Especially for a herd of less than 10, like [USER=42715]@rocfarm[/USER] currently has. I think it's a lot for a herd of less than 60. I think economy of scale makes a big difference. Instead of growing yearling heifers, those could be replaced with more cows, giving you more calves, giving more economy of scale. Around here, the more you can do to give you bigger groups to sell, the better. You could also use high growth terminal bulls to add pounds at sale time since you don't have to keep replacements. My freight for a trailer to get to the sale is over $200. Spreading that over 10 calves vs 6 calves at sale day helps a lot. A full trailer would be better. Also, the small number of 900 lb heifers that don't breed, they won't sell worth a darn as a very small group of too heavy feeder heifers. And that's an expensive freight bill. Good for you if you can find a way around these issues. You do seem to have nice cows, which sounds like comes from keeping replacements. I was speaking for the normal producer selling at a conventional market. But I can't say too much about cows. I don't have cows. I just do stockers, to give me more economy of scale. [/QUOTE]
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